Fang Liu will defend her dissertation on ‘Intonation Systems of Mandarin and English: a Functional Approach’ on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. in Classics 312 (department lounge). A draft of Fang’s dissertation, including abstract, can be found here.

Meanwhile, Osamu Sawada will be defending his dissertation proposal on ‘Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers’ this Wednesday, February 11, at 12:00 p.m. in Classics 312.